What Does Palm Mean?
Palm, Inc. is an American technology company that specialized in the design and manufacture of personal digital assistants (PDAs) and similar electronic devices. It is most famous for producing the PalmPilot, which paved the way for the wide adoption of the PDA, the predecessor to the modern smartphone. Palm’s last major product releases were the Palm Pre and Pixi in 2009; both used WebOS which was the first multitasking OS for smartphones.
Techopedia Explains Palm
Palm, Inc. was founded in 1992 by Jeff Hawkins who was later joined by Ed Colligan and Donna Dubinsky. The company started as a software developer for the contemporary generation of consumer PDAs, called the Zoomer. The Zoomer was manufactured by Casio for the Tandy Corporation, and Palm provided the personal information manager (PIM) software. The device was a commercial failure, but Palm continued to earn revenue by selling synchronization software for HP devices and it also provided handwriting recognition software, called Graffiti, for Apple Inc’s Newton MessagePad.
